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You know your interest in birds has blossomed from passing to passion when you realize that you’re even enamored of avian artifacts from their abodes to their ovums. Yet, your aviphilia need not be avid for you to enjoy Egg & Nest, an absolutely gorgeous work by Rosamond Purcell, Linnea S. Hall,  and René Corado.

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The Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC used an electronic egg to record incubation data in the nest of a captive-bred Kori’s Bustard. The data collected will be used to better artificially incubate the threatened bird’s eggs in the future. Read more about it here.

I recently took a walk off-trail at Papscanee Island, taking advantage of deer trails to find my way through the thick brush. I was startled by an American Robin flushing from directly in front of me, not more than three feet away. A closer look at the location the bird flushed from revealed [...]

On June 01 this year I posted a ‘comment’ piece on the death of Colin Watson, who was allegedly an obsessional egg-collector and had recently died falling from a tree in a Yorkshire wood (UK’s notorious egger dies in fall). I had never met Colin Watson, of course, but in my piece I tried to [...]

A friend of mine sent me an article from The Daily Mail newspaper yesterday about the death of a notorious “egger” who had fallen 40′ out of a tree after losing his footing. The story was already doing the rounds when I received it and had appeared on several internet bird forums, usually with gleeful [...]